27 Jul
2006
27 Jul
'06
12:37 p.m.
Antonio Carlini wrote:
The SI prefixes (k) kilo and (M) mega have always
meant 10**3 and 10**6.
The computer industry decided that K should mean 1024 (which is
fine if somewhat confusing)
It's not confusing - or at least it never used to be. In a computing context K
was always a power of 2 because in that environment that's what's more
convenient, and in any other context it meant a power of 10. The only
confusion arose when some total muppet [1] decided that *also* using powers of
ten in a computer context was a brilliant idea.
[1] Anyone know who it was, anyway? I first saw it in the hard disk industry
somewhere around 1997 or so, purely as a marketing tool to make one
manufacturer's drives look bigger than their competitors.
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